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"Oracle has come to the Court with unclean hands due to its practice of requiring licensees of its purportedly open software to pay for licenses to items not covered by Oracle's alleged intellectual property in order to receive a license under Oracle's alleged intellectual property."

"The 1976 Copyright Act, as amended in 1999, authorizes statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work infringed in cases of willful infringement and from $750 up to $30,000 in cases of non-willful infringement."

Google is making copies, they are possibly illegal. Doesn't matter the license they thought they had, they can still be held responsible up $30,000 a copy.

Is it legal and viable for a lawyer to do stuff like:"My client never laid eyes on the victim of this horrible crime; but even if he did, he was not at the scene of the murder at the time of the killing; but even if he was, he's not the shooter; but even if he was, he was insane; and if he wasn't, then it was clearly self-defense."